Publication Citation: Free and Open Source Software

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Author(s):

Keith Miller; Jeffrey M. Voas; Tom Costello;

Title:

Free and Open Source Software

Published:

December 13, 2010

Abstract:

In this paper, free and open source software are discussed. Open source is an intellectual property destroyer. Nothing could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. Microsoft has an official open source presence on the Web (www.microsoft.com/opensource), and in July 2010, Jean Paoli, the General Manager for Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft, delivered a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.